Sumana asks us to honour and celebrate love in our poetry and has shared simple, passionate and timeless lines from some of her favourite poets from Persia, Lebanon and Syria, as well as quotations from George Sand and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Ah, the lifetime of love so beautifully expressed — oh yes, it withers, and yet there is always this hope for the spring to come. This is so good — the form, the texture, the message all as a composite whole.

This was a fun read, Kim. I was waiting for the bloom to open. And then what? You covered that nicely, it’s a sorry way to end, been there. Both of us grew new buds, like after a pruning. Our new bloom is still pretty and eye catching now 46 years old. The ‘other’ had two more shortlived before a third came to survive. Part of living.
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